Before COVID-19, elder abuse affected one in 10 older adults annually in the United States. It is widely thought that the pandemic has led to a surge in elder abuse due to the stay-at-home order and increased interpersonal, social, and financial stressors, yet edivence is lacking on the involvement of these factors. This webinar will present data from the first investigation of self-reported elder abuse victimization in a relatively large and diverse sample of older adults. The webinar will describe the prevalence of elder abuse, risk and resilience factors for abuse victimization during the pandemic. Findings will be discussed in relation to practice, policy, and implications for prevention programming.
Presenter:
E-Shien (Iggy) Chang, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow in Behavioral Geriatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine’s Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
Dr. E-Shien (Iggy) Chang is a NIH-supported Postdoctoral Fellow in Behavioral Geriatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine’s Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. Iggy’s research program seeks to investigate and dismantle mechanisms of elder abuse and neglect across diverse cultural, family, and care settings. Her doctoral dissertation work was among the first to systematically examined the role of ageism, operating at both societal and individual levels, in driving elder abuse perpetration. Iggy completed her PhD in Social and Behavioral Sciences at Yale School of Public Health and her MA in Social Sciences at University of Chicago.
This webinar will be held on Thursday, March 3, 2022 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET.
